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TACOMA ARTS LIVE

EIN 91-1106878 TACOMA, WA

Revenue 2023
$6,221,009
Expenses 2023
$7,638,218

Program services were 74.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A65Z
Classification
2000
Street
1001 YAKIMA AVE STE 1

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

The mission of the Tacoma Arts Live is to energize community through performance, its vision is a south sound community that celebrates all cultures and enjoys shared prosperity. Development of youth is a main program element through a whole-child lens with emphasis on social-emotional learning and civil rights education.

Activities or mission (Part I)

The mission of the Tacoma Arts Live is to energize community through performance. Its vision is a south sound community that celebrates all cultures and enjoys shared prosperity. Development of youth is a main program element through a whole-child lens with emphasis on social-emotional learning and civil rights education.

  • TACOMA ARTS LIVE SERVED APPROXIMATELY 144,000 PATRONS IN ITS FISCAL YEAR 2023/2024 SEASON. SERVICES PROVIDED BY TACOMA ARTS LIVE INCLUDED LIVE PERFORMANCES, FESTIVALS, MARKETS, EVENTS, EDUCATION THROUGH THE ARTS PROGRAMS, VIRTUAL PROGRAMMING, AND SMALL BUSINESS INCUBATION SERVICES. WE DELIVERED EDUCATION THROUGH THE ARTS PROGRAMS TO PUBLIC SCHOOLS, PRIVATE SCHOOLS, INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS, AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS THROUGHOUT THE SOUTH SOUND REGION OF WASHINGTON STATE. TACOMA ARTS LIVE ALSO COLLABORATES WITH LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS TO SERVE MULTIPLE COMMUNITY MEMBERS THROUGH OUTDOOR EVENTS AND IN VARIOUS VENUES.

    Expenses $5,688,794 · Revenue $3,119,172

As filed on the 2023 return.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • David Fischer

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $236,552
    From this org
    $216,159
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $20,393
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $204,872
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    $11,287
    Deferred
    $10,240
    Nontaxable benefits
    $10,153
    Filer's total
    $236,552

  • Lacey Wright

    Chief Mark. Off

    Total calculated
    $173,733
    From this org
    $155,855
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $17,878
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $155,813
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    $42
    Deferred
    $7,746
    Nontaxable benefits
    $10,132
    Filer's total
    $173,733

  • Chris Tubig

    COO

    Total calculated
    $127,074
    From this org
    $112,123
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $14,951
    Hours/week
    40

  • Susanne M Groshong

    CFO

    Total calculated
    $115,436
    From this org
    $101,119
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $14,317
    Hours/week
    40

  • Katharine M Lappier

    Chief Prog. Off

    Total calculated
    $113,525
    From this org
    $103,508
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $10,017
    Hours/week
    40

  • Joshua Knudson

    Chief Adv. Off.

    Total calculated
    $92,963
    From this org
    $92,127
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $836
    Hours/week
    40

  • Brian Bergren

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Stacey Guadnola

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Alison Beason

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Dave Harmon

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Maria Tania Becerra Weingarden

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Christina Blocker

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Holly Bocchi

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jon Bowser

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Romina Barrett

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Marty Campbell

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dana Carlisle

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Vanessa Jones

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Marce Edwards Olson

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Maia Espinoza

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Rosheida Meyers

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Amanda Nathan

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Leslie Harbaugh

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ron Swarner

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ron Klein

    Trustee

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

The first 25 listed. Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $6,221,009
    Expenses
    $7,638,218
    Contributions
    $3,149,730
    Grants paid
    $7,259
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $10,789,930
    Expenses
    $6,365,143
    Contributions
    $8,443,610
    Grants paid
    $15,577

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2023 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,854,641
    Expenses
    $5,096,855
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,791,397

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,456,801
    Expenses
    $2,998,482
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,194,540

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,497,106
    Expenses
    $5,662,611
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,740,715

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,996,782
    Expenses
    $6,633,377
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,338,602

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,913,987
    Expenses
    $6,556,740
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,742,169

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,859,047
    Expenses
    $5,614,825
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,738,533

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,745,729
    Expenses
    $4,667,344
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,489,708

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,200,241
    Expenses
    $4,245,443
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,593,885

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Disregarded entities on its 2023 return

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.